Poetry and public discourse in nineteenth-century America /
General Material Designation
[Book]
First Statement of Responsibility
Shira Wolosky.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Palgrave Macmillan,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2010.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xii, 254 pages ;
Dimensions
22 cm.
SERIES
Series Title
Nineteenth-century major lives and letters
GENERAL NOTES
Text of Note
Includes index.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Modest Claims -- Emily Dickinson and American Identity -- Public and Private: Double Standards -- Genteel Rhetoric, North and South -- Edgar Allan Poe: Metaphysical Rupture and the Sign of Women -- Claiming the Bible: Slave Spirituals and African-American Typology -- Women's Bibles -- Fragmented Rhetic in Battle-Pieces -- Plural Identities and Local Color -- Emma Lazarus' American-Jewish Prophetics -- Paul Laurence Dunbar's Crossing Languages -- Harvard Formalism -- Walt Whitman's Repubic of Letters.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"Poetry and Public Discourse explores nineteenth- century poetry as it addresses and engages in major concerns of American cultural life. It focuses on gender, biblical politics, Revolutionary discourses and racial, sectional, and religious identities, as these contend and negotiate with each other in the shaping of a pluralist democratic polity. Nineteenth-century American poetry, far from being the self-reflective art object of twentieth-century aesthetic theory, offers a rhetorical arena in which civic, economic, and religious trends intersect with each other in mutual definition and investigation. Poetry emerges as a core impulse in the formation of American identity and cultural definition"--
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
American poetry-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
Literature and society-- United States-- History-- 19th century.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Public opinion in literature.
American poetry.
Literature and society.
Lyrik
Lyrik-- amerikanische-- Geschichte 19. Jh.
National characteristics, American, in literature.